Virginia Woolf representations of stream of consciousness in “To the
lighthouse” the narrator speak in the third person and portray the characters
and action, or we can say that story develops through the flow of thoughts in
the minds of the characters. Virginia Woolf has often use this technique to
give the novel its special character of seeming to be always within the
consciousness of the chief characters. She tries to deconstruct the idea of
patriarchal power structure. She tries to satire of that power structure so
that’s also stream of consciousness technique. For example Mrs.Ramsay wanted to
make her daughter like her, so we can compare Virginia and her daughters in the
novel. The second thing is stream of consciousness. Stream of consciousness is
a style of writing. In narrative technique use two basic types of inferior
monologue. Direct Inferior Monologue and Indirect Inferior Monologue. In this
novel she also used technique of Brackets and Parenthesis.
Mrs. Ramsay was chief character in the novel she was portrayed as the kind
mother and wife. Mrs. Ramsey is a critical thinker of a different sort than is
usually expected. According to Woolf Mrs. Ramsey is a great amount of dignity,
Mrs. Ramsay is a great amount of dignity. Mrs. Ramsay is traditional women who
believed in sacrifice her life for her own family. She tries to make her family
happy. She has all the qualities which were presented into a house wife she is
a beautiful and loving women. We can say that in Lily Briscoe painting she
represents a struggle against gender convention, represented by Charles
Tinsley’s statement that women cannot paint.
In “To the lighthouse”, Virginia Woolf uses
a variety of myths. Joseph Blotner has also use the myth like the Pagan myth or
Oedipus myth. The pagan myth represent ancient goddesses and it is described
the chief role of female character. In “To the Lighthouse” the female role like
the mother, and mother remain become the center, mother is controlling one or
all. Oedipus is a Greek mythological character based on the myth of “Oedipus
Rex” was written by Sophocles. Oedipus who unwittingly kills his father, Laius
and marries his mother Jocasta. In this
novel James who was a son of the Mrs.Ramsay. He loves his mother deeply and
feels a murderous antipathy toward his father.
'Künstlerroman’ is a German term which is about the somebody’s life or Artist’s
novel, or we can say which describes development or a struggle of an artist as
in ‘To the Lighthouse’ Lily’s character and the novel, itself is a struggle of
an artist. She wants to prove her intelligence in front of men.
In Literature symbol is anything which signifies. The symbol of Refrigerator it
is a preserve thing and it is the symbol of change also Refrigerator its change
of technology changing and presumably improving human culture. Refrigerator it
is symbol of central character Mrs.Ramsay that she always tries to preserve the
refine form of culture as it is her responsibility. It is suggestion to James
from Mrs.Ramsay to cut refrigerator from the catalog of Army and Navy. The
refrigerator is an instrument of science, and it occupies the same sphere as
the lighthouse.
